Industry Solutions
Zimbra is deployed in more than 13 different industries in over 80 countries worldwide including education, service providers, business, government, non-profits, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, transportation, technology, advertising and media, real estate, retail, and more.
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Education
Service Providers
Government and Non-Profit
Healthcare and Finance
Transportation and Manufacturing
Technology, Advertising and Media
Real Estate and Retail
Education
The education market is characterized by campuses with large non-Windows desktop populations, the need for one collaboration platform to span highly fragmented departments, plus requirements to simplify administration and integrate directly with other campus platforms (Xythos, Sakai, SunGard, BlackBoard, and more).
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is deployed by more than 500 universities in higher education and K-12 districts today with over 2 million paid mailboxes because it can unify campuses and provide either on-premise and/or outsourced hosted email solutions for students, alumni, faculty, and staff.
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Service Providers
Zimbra Collaboration Suite is designed for deployment by carriers / operators, broadband providers, hosting providers and Internet service providers (ISPs). Key ZCS features for service providers include: state-of-the-art web user experience (re-skin, re-brand), multi-tenancy for small business email hosting, highly-scalable architecture, flexible Class-of-Service (to enable specific features and set quotas) and ad serving.
Millions of people use Zimbra as their mail experience through many service providers worldwide because Zimbra has demonstrated it can scale and provides innovative features and flexibility required to successfully provide Web 2.0 consumer internet services.
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Government and Non-Profit
Zimbra Collaboration Suite provides local, state, and federal government as well as non-profit organizations a powerful alternative to Microsoft Exchange with full collaboration features and mobility on an open source platform. Zimbra’s email and calendar server also increases the efficiency of IT staff and offers lower total cost-of-ownership (TCO) by reducing the time spent managing email.
Today Zimbra is used by fire and police departments, libraries, museums, social centers, state and federal governments. Zimbra’s is proud to serve its largest customer in this category, the U.S. Federal Government Department of Defense.
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Healthcare and Finance
In addition to innovative email and calendaring, Zimbra Archiving and Discovery (ZAD) is a component of Zimbra Collaboration Suite providing organizations with SOX, HIPAA, FRCP, and corporate governance requirements an integrated solution to safeguard themselves. We also provide real-time back up and restore plus support for strong internet-based security (SSL/TLS) that does not require a VPN.
Zimbra Mobile provides freedom to staff on the go and rarely at their desktop, while Zimbra webmail experience enables cost-effective scaling of users where there is seasonality such as in tax season.
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Transportation and Manufacturing
A central tenent to manufacturing and tranportation of goods is a close eye on the bottom line and marginal return per unit sold. Organizations in these industries express a strong desire for limiting IT expenses while providing the most effective suite of collaboration tools possible. Often they face challenges of geographically distributed teams, tiered features based on functional role and pressure to reduce spending as they scale the organization.
With Zimbra organizations are able to provide fully featured collaboration with feature sets tailored to any range of users; from webmail-only to full mobility and desktop synchronization. Zimbra enables the consolidation of IT resources and features lower total cost-of-ownership than equivalent legacy platforms.
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Technology, Advertising and Media
Industries such as technology and advertising / media skew heavily to non-Windows platforms with many software developers and designers in their ranks. Both Mac and Linux platforms need to be first class citizens; with all employees requiring full collaboration capabilities. Workers in these industries also tend to be early adopters looking for cutting edge tools to maximize flexibility and efficiency.
Zimbra brings a seamless experience and enterprise-class email and collaboration to Windows, Mac and Linux users in the organization plus full mobility to iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. Zimbra’s web services make it easy to experiment with and integrate with other internal applications. Zimbra is proud to serve over 175 advertising, media and creative organizations and many of the brightest stars in technology.
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Real Estate and Retail
Organizations in real estate and retail range greatly in size, from sole proprietorships to large multi-location / division / nationals, but they all share many common traits. They require a communication solution to provide cost-effective on boarding of new employees and contractors, class of service to easily tier features, unified scheduling, support for multiple desktop platforms, and mobility- all with less IT overhead.
Zimbra’s web collaboration experience provides organizations optimum flexibility to scale users without investing in expensive client software and via class of service, Zimbra can be an email or calendar-only solution or a full collaboration suite per user. Over-the-air sync is provided to smartphones (iPhone and BlackBerry) and a web admin console simplifies end-to-end system maintenance. Zimbra supports thousands of leading real estate and retail organizations today.
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